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Huh, again: I loved it! Not sure what y’all (or I) are missing. I also liked the soundtrack!

I just don't find most comedies funny, one of these days I'll just stop watching them again.

Yeah, Lockwood was great - the writers were from Chibnall’s Doctor Who seasons. Obviously they do much bit better under a competent (first-time!) showrunner

I've been really liking the Spanish TV shows Merlí (I'm watching the season when they are in college) and Smiley, both on Netflix. The former is about philosophy students at the University of Barcelona. The latter is lighter, about a gay bar and a potential romance, with everyone in the show being someone I would want to know in real life.

Both shows star Carlos Cuevos, who is really charming

Kinda surprising to me that Disney+ is losing so many subscribers. You'd think having Disney/Marvel/Star Wars stuff in one exclusive place would be enough. Anyway, now there are stories they might be trying to sell off Hulu, which makes me concerned, since along with HBO, Hulu may have the best array of good new stuff to stream.

that would be ridiculously dumb of them imo but who knows

servant literally doesn't make a single lick of sense, I can't wait for it to be over. every episode is basically "what if this weird shit happened?"

Kinda surprising to me that Disney+ is losing so many subscribers.

they just had kind of a dry spell (Andor aside) with She Hulk not doing great overall, I suspect lots of people jumped ship for a while and then will come back when Madalorian starts up again.

after a time you've watched all the backlog and if there's not enough new stuff to watch in any given month i don't blame people for skipping out. have a fallow couple of months and then come back and binge everything you've missed.

servant literally doesn't make a single lick of sense, I can't wait for it to be over. every episode is basically "what if this weird shit happened?"

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, February 10, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

So much unhinged violence inside and outside their home on a regular basis and not only do the neighbors nor police seem not to care, they all happily come to a dinner party.

in the UK Disney+ has "Star" which is a Hulu-like collection of catalogue shows eg Only Murders, X Files, Buffy, Atlanta, uh... NCIS Hawaii... anyway it is pretty substantial and I can see it easily justifying keeping the subscription for a lot of people even after they've watched whatever flavour of the month show has just dropped

i forgot it has Searchlight Pictures flicks too eg Banshees of Inisherin, See How They Run

Kinda surprising to me that Disney+ is losing so many subscribers. You'd think having Disney/Marvel/Star Wars stuff in one exclusive place would be enough. Anyway, now there are stories they might be trying to sell off Hulu, which makes me concerned, since along with HBO, Hulu may have the best array of good new stuff to stream.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 10, 2023 11:05 AM (thirty-five minutes ago)

Someone debunked this pretty well on twitter when it was implied Disney had gone woke or whatever -- they actually gained subscribers in North America, and lost a ton of them in Asia because they no longer have the rights to air in Indian Premier League cricket

lol

Canada has the same larger catalogue as the UK, and when I was in the US for xmas I was confounded by how limited D+ is there — seemed like a bad waste of $$ if you don't have children. Even so, I'll be cancelling it up here too once I'm done with The Americans. Unfortunately I feel like I've scraped the barrel on the handful of streamers available in Canada (not including Criterion, and I will never pay for Amazon)

xxpost I think that was reported. Iirc the cricket rights were bundled with a whole Indian streaming service or something, so while it earned them eyeballs, it didn't earn them much money.

I have access to D+ via a sibling’s account, and honestly I don’t think I’ve watched more than a couple of hours’ stuff on there? There’s some old films I like but if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW stuff then I can’t see why you’d bother. (And they didn’t have the IPL rights here or we’d have had our own subscription before!)

I have access to D+ via a sibling’s account, and honestly I don’t think I’ve watched more than a couple of hours’ stuff on there? There’s some old films I like but if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW stuff then I can’t see why you’d bother. (And they didn’t have the IPL rights here or we’d have had our own subscription before!)

Lmao thanks zing

if you’re not interested in Marvel or SW

And that's the crux of it, isn't it? These two properties alone are two of the most popular, profitable (?) tentpole IP generators of all time, you'd think people "only" into Star Wars and Marvel would still comprise a pretty huge number. Throw in a million Disney/Pixar movies that have a similar hold on a certain section of society and you'd think Disney+ would be set. Hell, they have Avatar, the most popular movie in the world (that weirdly no one I know, nor any of their kids of different ages, has seen or has any interest in seeing, lol).

My kids will never allow me to get rid of Disney+. Mainly Star Wars but also Marvel—and Nat Geo! One son absolutely loves the shows about nature and archeology.

Disney shows/movies probably the least interesting thing on the platform for them. They sometimes like when newer Pixar movies come out but that’s purely due to the hype cycle - they have zero interest in the older movies, with rare exceptions.

The old Kurt Russell live-action flicks, I presume...

I think the US got kind of screwed on Disney+ because Hulu already existed and they decided to do some market segmentation yet charge the same. So there's not a direct parallel and Hulu has a large portion of the FX/whatever content they throw on D+ in other regions. And most of those places didn't have Hulu

yeah, here in Canada, Disney+ definitely seems like the streaming service where you get the most for your money, a pretty huge variety of shows/movies. Netflix on the other hand is seemingly just an endless amount of ridiculous baking game shows (which, admittedly, my kids love to watch).

Crave was overpriced (since only the version with HBO & Showtime was worth subscribing to) but essential for a while, but now that HBO has slowed down so hard it's outrageously overpriced

And Showtime totally imploded, at least for now (maybe all the shows they deleted will come back on Paramount+ at some point? Not like I'm going to subscribe to that).

Just discovered I Love That For You on Showtime, which is hilarious.

We watched that on our free trial, it's fantastic. Glad that one didn't mysteriously disappear like Kidding.

oh man did they just totally delete kidding? I'd torrented that in the past, I think I still have season 2 around which I never watched.

Yeah! We were in the middle of season 2.:(

I have been really enjoying the Spanish TV shows Merlí: Sapere Aude and Smiley, both on Netflix and starring my new TV boyfriend Carlos Cuevas

Smiley is lighter than Merlí, it centers on a gay bar in Barcelona and reminds me of all of the promises and future possibilities I felt were open to me in my 20s. All of the characters in it are people I have known or would want to know

UK D+ has Reservation Dogs and The Bear (is that the Hulu contribution?)

yeah those are both Hulu shows in the US

D+ in the UK has MUPPET SHOW. You can unsuscribe but then how are you gonna see Kris Kristofferson sing a song about seducing Miss Piggy?

Watched The Bear. Loved The Bear. I wasn't as fussed about the realism aspect as some here. The show did enough to flag up the fact that it was a stylised reality I think? Loved the performances and how the frantic moments lent a silence to the quieter interactions. And the music! A whole episode set to 'Spiders (Kidsmoke)'! Would love to read more about the music choices. 'Let Down' *maybe* a bit on the nose over the end credits?
Anyway, great show. I'm not fussed about a second season, tbh, but would watch, obviously.

Also Atlanta, WWDITS, Only Murders etc xps

Subscribed for a month in Australia because it was cheaper than renting the movie my daughter wanted to watch, and having been led to believe it would be full of good things, it turned out Disney+ Is a fucking wasteland.

The streaming era is so wretched in ways that feel like they oughtnt be intrinsic to the technology, that seems to be the theme of this thread and the other threads that are also this thread

Tied in with all the Disney/death of cinema stuff

Xp to myself about The Bear. Kind of a shame that a fable about familial love and reconciliation ends with everything being solved by a literal pile of good old greenbacks.

yeah but there’s a second season to come that will likely bring the inherent problrms!

D+UK also has Buffy, but we are now deep into S7 and almost done with it.

I found bits of The Bear v good, but found the overwhelming testosterone yelling too much to, um, bear.

Would love to read more about the music choices.

https://uproxx.com/indie/the-bear-soundtrack-showrunners-interview/

My other half just signed up for Britbox because he wants to watch every UK procedural in existence. We've already watched so much Happy Valley/Line of Duty/Silent Witness/Cracker/etc and THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME ACTORS how much more can I take.

hahaha tru

we just started Our Friends In The North, also on Britbox (and old), so far so good after EP1 although a bit overacted?

I dont mind a good copper procedural (the recent conclusion to Happy Valley was great) but god, its all so grim.

I just watched all the Crackers, as never saw them the first time round. Not really sure they're the genius they're generally held up to be, but some fantastic performances.

I hope the UK is gonna get WWDITS...? i don't wanna have to subscribe to yet another thing just to watch one thing.

right now I'm rewatching Party Down on dvd

WWDITS is on iPlayer!

Seasons 1-3

ya I mean the latest series. ditto Atlanta. bbc2 always had them in the past!